Australia Ladies’s captain Meg Lanning shocked the world on Thursday by asserting that she is retiring from worldwide cricket with an instantaneous impact. A winner of two ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup trophies and 5 ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup titles, Lanning bows out of the sport on the age of 31 having amassed greater than 8000 runs throughout all codecs for her nation. “The choice to step away from worldwide cricket was a tough one to make, however I really feel now’s the best time for me,” Lanning stated as quoted by ICC.
“I’ve been extremely lucky to get pleasure from a 13-year worldwide profession, however I do know now’s the best time for me to maneuver on to one thing new. Crew success is why you play the sport, I’m happy with what I’ve been capable of obtain and can cherish the moments shared with teammates alongside the way in which.”
“I wish to thank my household, my teammates, Cricket Victoria, Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers’ Affiliation for his or her assist in permitting me to play the sport I really like on the highest stage. I additionally need to say an enormous thanks to all of the followers who’ve supported me all through my worldwide profession,” she concluded.
Lanning’s first ICC title was the T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka in 2012 and it was adopted by a 50-over World Cup triumph in India again in 2013.
The ultra-consistent right-hander took the captaincy reins from Jodie Fields at first of 2014 and it was by no means trying again for her from there, as she led her nation with aplomb on 182 events and to 5 ICC titles throughout a golden run for Australia cricket.
Lanning was named ICC Ladies’s T20I Cricketer of the 12 months in 2014 and the next 12 months was adjudged the ICC Ladies’s ODI Cricketer of the 12 months.
Extra titles adopted for Australia underneath the watchful eye of Lanning and the fearsome chief additionally led her nation to a gold medal on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham.
Lanning completed her profession with a complete of 17 worldwide centuries, with 15 of these coming in 50-over cricket and a career-best 152 not out in opposition to Sri Lanka in Bristol in 2017. That tally of 15 centuries is probably the most in ladies’s ODI cricket, with New Zealand veteran Suzie Bates her closest rival with 12.
Lanning’s final worldwide match was when she fittingly led her nation to the T20 World Cup title in South Africa earlier this 12 months.
In six Assessments, Lanning scored 345 runs at a mean of 31.36, with a greatest particular person rating of 93, with two half-centuries.
In 103 ODIs, she scored 4,602 runs at a mean of 53.51. Lanning scored 15 centuries and 21 fifties in 102 innings, with one of the best rating of 152*.
Lastly, in 132 T20Is, Lanning scored 3,405 runs in 121 innings at a mean of 36.61 and a strike price of above 116. She scored two centuries and 15 fifties, with one of the best rating of 133 not out.
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